Saturday, September 8, 2012

Fast, Fresh and Tasty App Giveaway!

Fast, Fresh & Tasty is the only recipe app made for and by kiwis. It’s all about creating delicious weeknight meals using our local ingredients and celebrating our seasons. There are free seasonal updates and very popular features such as a shopping list function. The app is picking up all kinds of awards and frequently sits at the top of the NZ iTunes store (ahead of the Jamie Oliver and Nigellas of this world!).

To get in the draw to win yourself a copy leave us a comment below telling us what your go to weeknight meal or favourite ingredient is. Please leave your full name. We also need to contact the winners via email (to give you the details on how to claim the app), so please either provide us with your email address or check back on the blog or facebook to find out if are a winner because we will need to hear from you.

The competition is running all weekend, closing at 5pm on Sunday. Winner will be selected through a random draw and details on how to claim the app will be sent out via email. We will endeavour to post up the winners by 7pm Sunday evening. Winners have until 7pm on Monday to get in contact with us or the prize will be re-drawn.

At the moment it's frozen snap peas! - my children have planted seeds and couldn't wait until they grow. They love breaking into them to find treasure (peas!). I add them into stir fries - I can't wait til we can eat them fresh!

My fav ingredient to use for meals is chicken. Whether it's diced for fried rice or a stir fry, or thighs for a curry or slow cooked butter chicken. Or a whole chicken for a roast meal, followed by using left over chicken meat for a herby cobbler pie.

Favourite meal is stir fry at the moment. Fave for two reasons, one you can add pretty much anything to keep all audiences happy and two, my fiancé can cook it which as everyone knows it tastes so much better when someone else cooks!

Peanut Chicken - tasty and cheap, made from store-cuboard ingredients (curry powder, tinned tomatoes, peanut butter). Served with basmati rice and frozen baby green beans, topped with coriander! Leftovers are great in a wrap the next day.bernicecroeser@gmail.com

I'm loving homemade pizzas. I make the dough in my bread maker, and cook it on the pizza stone I was given at xmas. I love playing around with flavour combinations. My fave at the mo is roasted pumpkin, walnut, blue cheese and caramelised onion. Sooooo good. :)

Chicken is my 'staple'...I could eat it every day, and I used to when I lived in Aussie and it was so cheap! Now I am back in NZ, its a lot more expensive and my dad (who stays over a Tuesday and Wednesday night) doesnt 'eat anything from the sea or sky', so its mostly mince or sausages when he's there....but I would choose chicken before mince, anyday.

my favourite ingredient right now is low fat ricotta cheese, my new best friend and so healthy - easy meal this week using it was to get a chicken breast and cut in in half length wise, cook each side on a grill plate, then put tomato paste on top, top with ricotta cheese and put under grill till ricotta starts to bubble.. amazing.Lisa lisa@platform29.c0.nzx

My go to meal is wholemeal spaghetti and meatballs, it's my hubbys favourite! I make my meatballs with pork and beef mince and then whatever herbs and spices I have in the cupboard! If I have time I'll roast my tomatos and capsicum in the oven for the sauce to make it extra tasty!

My go to meal is (homemade)honey soy chicken stir fry with either rice or pasta, and lots of veges. We also always have all the ingredients for nachos for a quick and easy meal, for those nights when everyone is tired and no one really feels like cooking much!

My favorite ingredient is tortilla's..purchased from countdown homebrand gives u 15 tortilla's under $5 and u can use them during the week for variety of meals great as alternative for pasta in lasagne, pizza bases, chicken/beef wraps, enchiladas even spread with galic butter toast in pan and have as a side for curry (healhier naan). They last ages once opened too!sophie morton